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plethon the malaka. A basic showing that plethon did not represent byzantium, but presented the beginning of the high sock medieval pomp age of folly where high class pomps thought themselves above the masses while their society revelled in feudalism it was fashionable to read about greco roman freedom ANd democracy

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summaryno doubt god permitted the ottomans to invade and save the orthodox church from thebrutal venetian and franks who were hell bent on culturally assimulating the orthodoxpopulations. Known that venetians were more brutal than ottomans and under theottomans , orthodoxy was saved especially when we see the last emperor at the timejoining in a union with the latins and last minute saved by an attack from the ottomans.

orthodoxy was saved when the ottomans came in. when constantinople fell in 1204, thebarbarians introduced brutal feudalism on greek populations , imposing catholicism ongreeks. The church was saved at we know the moment the union was going to befermented in ayia sofia, the ottomans were at the gates. The greek race would have beenbarbarised if latins remained , however they still influenced the modern greek state to bepart of the western enlightenment of folly where banksters are infalliable. just anobservation

It must be noted that this all unfolded at the very beginning of the epoch called byhistorians the “Renaissance”—the world-wide creation of a nationalistic, Hellenic-Greek,pagan ideal. It was understandably difficult for the Greeks not to be tempted by thisWestern European renaissance, and the European fascination with the culture of theirgreat, ancient Greek ancestors.

Plethon and bassarion were venetian influenced greeks who were not really greek but ofgermanic extraction.

The fact that plethon was born 150 years after fall of constantinople shows you the extent andmagnitude of foreign influences to his beliefs and preceeded the renaissance.

finally settling in Mistra,[4] in the Despotate of Morea. This is probably where he lived as this provesthat this western fief in greece was dominated culturally and even genetically by westernerswho were no part of the byzantine orthodox fronima and character.

A teacher and magistrate of a crusader dominated territory and was highly influential in italyin trying to convince the medici's to create a platonic school of thought.

In Mistra he taught and wrote philosophy, astronomy, history and geography, and compiled digests ofmany classical writersPlethon was the author of De Differentiis, a detailed comparison between Platoand Aristotles' conceptions of Go .Plethon promoted labourers receive only 1 third, while in byzantium the worker was abusiness owner who was self sufficient was not required to give his profits to a mafia ormedieval lord.

This venetian pomp was the god for the pagan worshippers of greece who misappropriatedancient greek philosophy and fitted into a western ideological filter that pervades the ideals ofreason in a materialistic fashion consistent with the secular deistic movements of westerneurope who sought to find a loosening of their morale code to justify exploitation of theworlds resources under their suzerainty when Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus attended the Council of Ferrara, laterknown as the Council of Florence, to discuss a union ofthe Orthodox and Catholic churches. Despite being a secular philosopher, Plethon waschosen to accompany John VIII on the basis of his renowned wisdom and morality. Otherdelegates included Plethon's former students Bessarion, Mark Eugenikos and Scholarios.[5]

It seemed to represent a merging of Stoicphilosophy and Zoroastrian mysticism, and

discussed astrology, daemons and the migration of the soul. He recommended religiousrites and hymns to petition the classical gods, such as Zeus, whom he saw as universalprinciples and planetary powers. Man, as relative of the gods, should strive towards good.Pletho believed the universe has no beginning or end in time, and being created perfect,nothing may be added to it. He rejected the concept of a brief reign of evil followed byperpetual happiness, and held that the human soul is reincarnated, directed by the godsinto successive bodies to fulfill divine order. This same divine order, he believed, governedthe organisation of bees, the foresight of ants and the dexterity of spiders, as well as thegrowth of plants, magnetic attraction, and the amalgamation of mercury and gold. [2]

Several Byzantine titles such as logothetes and protovestarius continued in use,

although these titles were adapted to fit the conceptions of Western feudalism.The Byzantine pronoia system was also adapted to fit Western feudalism;peasants (paroikoi) technically owned their land, but military duties and taxesthat they had not been subject to under the pronoia system were imposed onthem by their new French lords.

russian bias pervades in this article and they misinterpret sources. greek nationalism was an invention not ofgreeks of constantinople but of venetian and westerners who pretended to be greek.The adherents to this causewere living in venetian occupied greece and their cultural orbit was centred in venice. These bastards were the oneslike bassarion to push for a greek nation state built on the old 12 gods, but this was not the imaginations of a truegreek roman who was educated and spirited about his nationality with romanism but a pomp bastard with lombardleanings pretending to be greek .

one can easily see this transition when greeks were granted freedom from ottomons, they re entered the barbarianspace of the west with their inefficient systems of government that protected the rich at the expense of the poor andwith a credit inflationary system of slavery[illegal under civil roman law but the barbarians were let out of the cageso to speak

The Principality of Achaea or of the Morea was one of the three vassal states of the Latin Empirewhichreplaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.[1] It becamea vassal of the Kingdom of Thessalonica, along with the Duchy of Athens, until Thessalonica was capturedby Theodore, the despot of Epirus, in 1224. After this, Achaea became for a while the dominant powerin Greece.In 1208/9, after Champlitte's departure, William I created a commission, composed of two Latin bishops,two bannerets and five Greek magnates and chaired by himself, to assess the land and divide it, accordingto Latin practice, in fiefs. The resulting register was presented at a parliament held at the princely residenceat Andravida, and divided the country into twelve baronies, mostly centred around a newly constructedcastle—a testament to the fact that the Franks were a military elite amidst a potentially hostile Greekpopulation.[3][4] The twelve temporal barons were joined by seven ecclesiastic lords, headed by the LatinArchbishop of Patras. Each of the latter was granted a number of estates as knightly fiefs, with theArchbishop receiving eight, the other bishops four each, and likewise four granted to each of the militaryorders: the Templars, Hospitallers and the Teutonic Knights.[5] The twelve secular baronies were:[

he Chronicle of the Morea(Greek: Το χρονικόν του Μορέως) is a long 14th-century

history text, of which four versions are extant: in French, Greek (inverse), Italian and Aragonese. More than 9,000 lines long, the Chroniclenarrates events ofthe Franks' establishment of feudalism in mainland Greece. West European Crusaderssettled in the Peloponnese (called Moreaat the time) following the Fourth Crusade. Theperiod covered in the Chronicle was 1204 to 1292 (or later, depending on the version). Itgives significant details on the civic organization of the Principality of Achaia.

The author of the original text of the chronicle appears to be a Franc or a gasmoule(aFrench-Greek, born from a mixed French-Greek marriage, the word seems to have anetymology from garçon (boy) and mule). He appeared to admire the Franks (Crusaders)and have contempt of the local population and the Roman Empire. Notably, the authorrespects the citizenship of the Byzantine Greeks, calling them Romans(Ρωμαῖοι) (especially in verses 1720-1738).

The significance of the Chronicle[edit]

The Chronicle is famous in spite of certain historical inaccuracies because of its livelydescription of life in the feudal community and because of the character of the languagewhich reflects the rapid transition from Medieval to Modern Greek.Polet[2] explains that since the author admired the Franks and had contempt for theByzantine culture, the Chronicle of Morea did not become part of popular culture andhistory after the Franks left the Peloponnese.Numerous administrative laws and practices of the Principality of Achaia are mentioned inthe Chronicle, making it a significant source on the Frankish period in Greece. [10]